Alam al-Din al-Sakhawi

Al-Sakhawi, the Qur'an-teacher, grammarian and Shafi'i; he read the readings under al-Shatibi and others until he surpassed his contemporaries, and the headship of instruction and letters at Damascus ended with him — people beyond count read under him. ¹

Al-Dhahabi said, "I know of no one in Islam from whom the readings were carried more than from him"; Ibn Khallikan said, "I saw him many times riding a beast up to Mount Salihiyya, two or three around him, each reciting his mi'ad in a different place while he corrected them all." His works include a tafsir as far as al-Kahf in four volumes, a commentary on the Shatibiyya in two, a commentary on al-Zamakhshari's Mufassal in four, Jamal al-qurra' and Taj al-iqra'. ¹